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TIL of the Wall, a Marvel supervillian who is a sentient chunk of wall with no arms

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Al9l TIL the US government can legally destroy (food) wheat on farms that produce in excess in order to “stabilize the market,” even if the excess is for personal consumption only.
xDZk TIL that a 30 ft tall log - the “Old Man of the Lake” - has been bobbing vertically on its end in Oregon’s Crater Lake since at least 1896.
Oogma TIL that traditional forest management used a sustainable method of wood harvesting called "coppicing" that would involve cutting a young tree to the stump, and harvesting the shoots in 7-20 years. One square km of coppiced land used produces enough heat for 100 homes a year.
61vm TIL that the flag of Nova Scotia was only officially adopted in 2013, even after 155 years of use, when an 11 year-old girl researching a project realized that it had never been officially recognized in all that time.
P11wg TIL that Appalachia, long portrayed as uniformly settled by the Scot-Irish and solely inhabited by poor working class Whites, has for centuries had an African American population that in some cases amounted to 25% of Appalachian inhabitants, an omission that manages to stereotype both races.